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AudioLingo
a short (8:06) podcast consisting of excerpts from the book of the same title, coupled with music by Gerador Zero
Sixty years ago today, we did the unthinkable. Sixty years plus three days later, we did it again. The mention of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may cause some Americans to jump up and salute, but every year that goes by they’re fewer in number .
In 1950, five years after the fact, a badly written book titled “How to Survive an Atomic Bomb” was published. This was a time when Americans were just beginning to build bomb shelters. Tojo and Hitler were replaced by commie pinkos and a motley assortment of irradiated monsters. Atomic warfare was not some nebulous overhanging threat; it was real and expected. “Duck and Cover” hadn’t yet become de rigueur in the schools, but books like this one were preparing the way in a manner that was chillingly matter-of-fact. And, at the same time, totally silly.
Todays’ podcast highlights some of the passages from “How to Survive…” and the music is “Samba do Aeroporto” by Gerador Zero.
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